Paint-can press



(No Model.)

W. O. WILLIAMS.

PAINT CAN PRESS. No. 379,190. Patent-ed Mar. 6, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

WILLIAM G. WILLIAMS, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

PAINT-CAN PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 379,190, dated March 6, 1888.

Application filed January 5, 1888. Serial No. 259,816.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM G. WILLIAMS, of Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Paint-Can Presses, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of an improved paintcan press, hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Figure 1 is a perspective with the lower end of one of the posts F broken away. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the spring-nut and part of the screw-shaft, and Fig. 3 is a plan View of the bed-plate.

J represents a bed-plate, to which aresecured upright postsF F,connected by a cross-head at the top, the whole being usually cast together.

0 represents a hollow cylinder formed in the cross-head, in which is pivoted, at E, a thumblever,D, itslowersurface havingscrewthreads cut thereon,and its upperprojecting end being pressed away from the cylinder 0 by the spring K, thus forming a spring nut.

B represents ascrew-shaft, on the upper end of which is secured a hand-wheel, A. The screw B passes through the cylinder 0 and its threads engage with the threads on the springnut D.

H represents a follower pivot-ed at G to the lower end of screw B, so that said screw can turn without necessarily turning the follower H, which is of the proper diameter to easily enter a paint-can.

L L represent two lugs cast on one of the upright posts F, by which the press may be screwed to a wall or other vertical support, and the bed-plate J is provided with screw-holes, by which the press may be screwed to a bench or a table.

I represents a curved circular rim formed on the bed-plate J and extending any desired dis tance around the back of said bed-plate, and formed substantially on the same curve as the (N0 model.)

outside of a standard paint-can, so that when the paint-can is set on the bed-plate J,with its exterior in contact with the rim 1, it is properly centered for the action of the follower H.

In operating myimproved press the springnut D is opened against the action of the spring K with one hand and the screw B is raised with the other hand until follower His higher than the paint-can which is to be put into the press, thus avoiding the delay incident to raising the follower by rotating the screw B, and

on releasing the spri ng-nut D the thread there on immediately engages with the thread on screwB and holds the screw and follower raised.

The paint-can having been placed on the bed-plate J, resting against the rim I, the follower H is lowered either by rotating the screw B or bypressing the same down with sufficient force to open the spriugnut D, or by opening the nut with the thumb until the follower H rests upon the disk ordinarily used in paintcans,when the paint may be pressed out by rotating the hand-wheel A.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The hereiirdescri bed pai nt-can p ress, consisting of the bed-plate J, provided with screwholes for attachment to a bench or table, and having a curved rim, I, to center the can, the posts F, secured to said bed-plate and connected at top by a cross-head provided with vertical cylinder 0, one of said posts being provided with perforated lugs L L, whereby it can be secured to a support, the screw 13, passed through the cylinder 0 and provided with hand-wheel A and follower H, and the springnut D, pivoted in the cylinder to engage the screw, substantially as described.

IVILLIAM O. WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

F. M. PHELPS, F. A. Luna. 

